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Enterprise: The Path to Transformation for Emerging
Public Universities
By Michael M. Crow
In my career as a faculty member and academic
administrator, I have always focused on understanding, designing, and
building knowledge organizations. I have been driven by a desire to
understand the fundamental organizational forces—economic,
political, and societal—within which academic institutions
operate. My approach has been to act very much like an architect and, in
many ways, a general contractor for new intellectual enterprises. I
deliberately speak of academic institutions in terms of "enterprise"
because, since becoming the president of Arizona State University (ASU)
in July 2002, I have been leading an effort to reconceptualize a large
public university as an enterprise—agile, competitive, adaptable,
and responsive to the changing needs of both our constituencies and
global society alike. . . .
Excerpted from the spring 2007 issue of The
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